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Best Defence Conference – November 1-2 2017

Scott Taylor, Esprit de Corps Magazine Heather Pilot, Pilot Hill Ltd. (Best Defence Conference) General Jonathan Vance, Chief of Defence Staff Canadian Armed Forces

Her Excellency The Right Honourable Julie Payette, Governor General of Canada

Group Photo of Canada's Top Women in the Defence World 2018

LAV 6.0 Combat Support Vehicle, Maintnenace and Recovery Vehicle (MRV)

LAV 6.0 Combat Support Vehicle, Ambulance Varient and Maintenance and Recovery Vehicle (MRV)

Rod Flick, Armatec Survivability, Heather Pilot, and Eyad Qudsi, Ministry of International Trade

Stanley Ing - Mercedes Benz, Heather Pilot, Sam Fotia - ACADA

CADSI Rountable

Carl Marcotte CCC

Ben Cecil, Adam Wood CCPV

Christyn Cianfarani CADSI

Cliff Benson VSETA

Col Nicolas Pilon, DAR , Stanley Ing, Mercedes

Col.Steve Chouinard DAR

Cpt Jason Armstrong DNR

David Perry, CGAI

Directors of Requirements

Eric Desfonds, Excelitas & Qioptiq

Eric Fournier, DRDC

Gastops

General the Hon Andrew leslie

Jason Hart, Chloe Wanklin IMT

Frank Schweitzer, Jens Bauer General Dynamics

Jerry Myers STEELCRAFT, Stan Jacobson CCC

Phuong T.V. Ngo, Jonathan Behar Gowling WLG

Joseph Yeremian, Hassan Nojoumi, John Makaran

Karim Amlani, DRDC

Major Michael Carroll DCMA

Marc Beaudoin HUDSON 4 SUPPLIES

Peter Studer, CFN & MC Extraordinaire

Tech Showcase

Best Defence Conference – November 8-9 2016

Best Defence Conference 2016 Entrance to the Tech Showcase

Best Defence Conference 2016 Shown from left, Col. Nicolas Pilon, Lt. Col. Steve Chouinard, Director of Air Requirements, Heather Pilot, Commanding Officer Sean Batte, & Sub Lt. Julian Budd.

Best Defence Conference 2016, Nicolas Todd Assoc. VP Policy, CADSI.

Best Defence Conference 2016 Jeff Van Heumen, Business Development Manager-Ontario, Ontario Centres of Excellence speaks about Supportable Innovation: Leveraging The Available Resources

Best Defence Conference 2016 Greg Dumont, Director, Sourcing, Lockheed Martin Canada

Best Defence Conference 2016 B2B / 121 Sessions sponsored by Kongsberg Protech Systems Canada & KPMG

Best Defence Conference 2016 Michael Akpata, Team Lead Public Safety, Investigations & Counter Fraud, IBM Canada

Best Defence Conference 2016 Nicole Verkindt, President, OMX addresses the convention. topic The Value Proposition: What it is & How to add value to an OEM

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Best Defence Conference 2016 Marlene Conway-Diels Director, Ontario Region - Consortium for Aerospace Research & Innovation in Canada (CARIC) An Overview

Best Defence Conference 2016 Heather Pilot addresses the conference

Best Defence Conference 2016 Peter Devlin, President of Fanshawe addresses the convention

Best Defence Conference 2016 Rear Admiral Darren Hawco, Chief of Force Development, Department of National Defence gives the keynote address

Best Defence Conference 2016 The Hon. Ed Holder, Ed Holder Consulting Inc.

Best Defence Conference 2016 Heather Pilot centre, with Slt. Julian Budd of HMCS Prevost left, and Lt(N) David R. Lewis , Public Affairs Officer Royal Canadian Navy at the Battle of Atlantic Memorial booth.

Best Defence Conference 2016 Julie Gilchrist, Operations Supervisor with Strategic Shipping with the display

Best Defence Conference 2016 TECH3 - Heather Pilot centre with participants in the Tech Showcase. (note have not included names as I can't identify all of them. )

Best Defence Conference 2016 Dave Carson, Sales & Product Specialist with AirBoss Defense shows his product to Robert Connell of KPMG on the first day of the conference.

Best Defence Conference 2016 Joseph Yeremian, Consulting Engineer, President Thermodyne Engineering Ltd.

Best Defence Conference 2016 Drew Jones, Sales & Marketing Manager Land Business Line, with Excelitas Technologies / Qioptiq with his booth at the conference.

Best Defence Conference 2016 Irv Lustigman, VP Tech Business Dev. with Vrvana was part of the Technology Showcase at the conference

Best Defence Conference 2016 Joseph Kinsella, CTO with Pegasus Aeronautics left, shows Joseph Yeremian President of Thermodyne Engineering Ltd at a power unit for a drone.

Best Defence Conference 2016 Shown from left, Robert Krizanec, Operation Manager Plasan, Randy Blose Purchasing Mgr. Mack Defense, Julie Gilchrist Operations Supervisor, Strategic Shipping, Jessica Bland, Business Development & Projects Canada, Strategic Shipping & Alain Gauthier Vice President Canadian Programs Mack Defense.

Best Defence Conference 2016 Robin Cnudde, Regional Manager SEI Industries left, Colonel Nicolas Pilon, and Richard Dickson SEI Industries.

Best Defence Conference 2016 Mara Strazdins, VP Corporate Communications & Investor Relations, Aubrey Eveleigh President & CEO, and Tony Dagnone with the Zenyatta booth.

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Best Defence Conference 2016 Captain Christopher Robinson, Director Naval Requirements with the Department of National Defence addresses the conference.

Best Defence Conference 2016 Alan Bolster, Client Relationship Leader, National Research Council addresses the crowd.

Best Defence Conference 2016 The panel on Future Warfare Capability Requirements Shown from left, Spencer Fraser, (at podium), Alain Gauthier, Dr. Paul T. Mitchell, Colonel Nicolas Pilon, & moderator Frank Lamie right.

Best Defence Conference 2016 Colonel Nicolas Pilon addresses the crowd during the panel.

Best Defence Conference 2016 Spencer Fraser, CEO, Federal Fleet Services during the panel discussion.

Best Defence Conference 2016 London North Centre MP Peter Fragiskatos addresses the convention.

Best Defence Conference 2016 left to right - Jim Newman, President ColfQ4 Incorporated, Brandon Hunter Business Development & Customer Support FPH Group and Tom Depace Engineering Coordinator FPH Group.

Best Defence Conference 2016 left to right, Laura Emond, Senior Development Officer, Ryan Moreira, Project Officer and Kaara Smith, Project officer - all with Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada.

Best Defence Conference 2016 left to right - Robert Krizanec, Plasan Canada Inc, with volunteer security guards Rashad Nakeyar centre, and Rashid Nakeyar right.

Best Defence Conference 2016 The Hon. Ed Holder, P.C., B.A. of Ed Holder Consulting Inc. with John E. Ball, PMP Directeur, Programmes Canadiens, with General Dynamics Land Systems-Canada at the opening night reception.

Best Defence Conference 2016 Sumaila Aongya, PMG Technologies Inc. with Scott Taylor, publisher espritdecorps at the opening reception.

Best Defence Conference 2016 Alyshia Lafrate, Manager, Business Development Iafrate Machine Works Ltd., Gary Nicholson Technical Sales & Manufacturing Representative JRoberts Manufacturing Inc., and Rob Muru, President A-Line/Muru

Best Defence Conference 2016 Harold Dumur, CTO OVA, Nicole Verkindt, President OMX, Kaila Beattie, President Antris & Rich Barich Business Development -Director Creation Technologies.

Best Defence Conference 2016 Greg Burton of DEW Engineering & Development left, Marie Theberge of CGI the Peter Devlin President of Fanshawe at the opening reception.

Best Defence Conference 2016 general shot

Best Defence Conference 2016 Giuseppe Racco from Kepstrum looks at product shown by Hassan Nojoumi, President of Shimifrez Inc. at his booth at the show.

Best Defence Conference 2016 London North Centre MP Peter Fragiskatos and MP John McKay

Best Defence Conference – November 3-4 2015

Two men chat in the sunlight at the Beat Defense Conference.

Mark Mikutech chief technical consultant with Mikutech demonstrates an interactive game that he has designed in his London based company.

Brig. Gen Arne Skjaerpe talks to members of the US Army about a drone called Black Hornet .

Brian Jamieson, CEO and President of Vigurus Technologies Inc speaks to Jeff MacLeod ,general manager of Colt Canada about the properties of the product his company manufactures.

Camil Giguere_Babcock,Guy Carrier_DEV Engineering_Allison Wright GDLS, and Chris Poole aslo Gen. Dynamics Land Systems.

Ben Cecil PHD Fanshawe CCPV Joseph Yeremian_Thermodyne Engineering_Doug Wildon_Hodge_ and John Makaran PHD CCPV

Peter Gartenburg speaks while the panel of speakers sits to the right.

Lt. Col Steve Taylor British LO to Ottawa talks to Col George Petrolekas of the Canadian Forces.

Arne Skjaerpe ProxDynamics Inc

Brig. Gen Arne Skjaerpe talks to members of the US Army about a drone called Black Hornet .

Ted Shuter,technical product manager with Revision Military shows a protective shield that fits over a helmet.

Eric descends of Excelitas/ Qioptiq shows awards that his part of the merged company, the Montreal based Excelitas has won for parts design.The two companies work together to produce thermal weapon sites for guns allowing soldiers to detect threats.

Allan MacAulay, Sales Manager Calgary Based with Novatel shows a GPS precise navigation system with a special signal process that detects jammers.

Cameron Shiell of Shiellec Inc talks to t members of the US Mary, from left Scott Hemore, Andre White and Jason Carrico.

Mike Dorricott , CEO of Canadian Chain Innovation at his booth at Best Defence.

Steve Rickard Excelitas/ Qioptiq shows heat seeking thermal scope which can be attached to weapons or used separately to detect threats.